ubuntuzilla – apt with mozilla’s most recent versions

If you check your Ubuntu (or Mint) after new releases of Firefox, you’ll figure it out that your browser is not updated yet. Other scenario is that you are using an Ubuntu-testing ISO image (beta or alpha) that is not a supported version, so you don’t have your browser updated yet. It’s worrying in some cases when Firefox fixes security issues. Ubuntu is not upgrading its repositories soon as Mozilla do upgrades.

That’s why you may want to install the latest version of Firefox from their own repository. Type the following commands in the terminal:

In order to install this version of Firefox , type the following commands:

Extract the contents of the downloaded file:

tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2

Close Firefox if it’s open.

To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder:

~/firefox/firefox

Ubuntuzilla

On many Linux distributions it is common to see a delay between a new release of Mozilla software, and the software showing up in the main distribution repositories. Depending on the distro policy, you might only see some security fix backports and not a full new release. It is frequently desirable to get more timely security updates for Mozilla software, or run the latest version, which may not be available in the repositories, due to the new features and improvements. This is where the Ubuntuzilla repository comes in. This repository tracks official Mozilla releases, and aims to push out the updated packages within a day or two of their release.

It host and APT repository with .deb repacks of the latest official release versions of Mozilla Firefox, Seamonkey and Thunderbird. The packages contain unmodified official Mozilla release binaries, which fact you are encouraged to verify by comparing the checksums of package contents with checksums of the contents of the official Mozilla tar.bz2 release archives.

The repository to add, if you’re adding it manually to your sources.list, is